Obama's Fractured Legacy : : The Politics and Policies of an Embattled Presidency / / François Vergniolle de Chantal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Vergniolle de Chantal, François,
• MitwirkendeR: Bensman, David,; Chantal, François Vergniolle de,; Célestine, Audrey,; Douzet, Frédérick,; Géry, Aude,; Kazin, Michael,; Kesselman, Donna,; Kousser, Thad,; Lichtenstein, Nelson,; Martin-Breteau, Nicolas,; Meyer, Alix,; Milkis, Sidney M.,; Rudalevige, Andrew,; Shermer, Elizabeth T.,; Skowronek, Stephen,; Sugrue, Thomas J.,; Vagnoux, Isabelle,; Vinel, Jean-Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

12 newly commissioned chapters critically assess the legacy of Obama’s presidency in Trump’s AmericaDesigned at the end of Obama's second term (unlike most books published on the Obama presidency), thus drawing on a complete range of insights on the former president's time in the officeFea...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Obama and the exhaustion of progressive presidentialism
• Part 1 INSTITUTIONS
• 1 Barack Obama and the promise of transformative leadership
• 2 Obama and the administrative presidency: Finding new meanings in old laws
• 3 Congressional gridlock reconsidered: The emergence of a “conducive coalition”?
• 4 Federalism: Barack Obama’s accidental devolution revolution
• Part 2 POLICIES
• 5 “Our immigration system is broken”: Barack Obama and the challenge of comprehensive immigration reform
• 6 War and peace in cyberspace: Obama’s multifaceted legacy
• 7 A decent-sized foundation: Obama’s urban policy
• 8 From Clinton to Obama to Trump: The politics and political economy of health insurance reform
• Part 3 MOVEMENT POLITICS
• 9 Criticize and thrive: The American left in the Obama years
• 10 “Stop killing us”: Mobilizing against structural racism in the United States from Black Lives Matter to the Movement for Black Lives
• 11 The Obama administration’s labor and employment legacy
• 12 Why wasn’t there a twenty-first-century “new” New Deal? Historical perspectives for the hope for and reality of Obama’s presidency
• 13 Coda – Obama’s fractured legacy
• Bibliography
• Index